GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cue | the letter q |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| trek | to make one's way arduously |
| repository | a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored : depository |
| potentate | ruler |
| retrench | cut down |
| haggard | not tamed |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |
| flirt | to move erratically : flit |